This humble Taoist priest wants to take the college entrance exam.

Chapter 261 The Taoist Master Came to Detonate the Laboratory

If we say that Lin Mengqiu's total score of 721 in this monthly exam is the limit that a person can achieve;

Chen Shi'an's 741 points seem more like a casual decision by the God of Literature.

The difference between the two doesn't seem to be twenty points, but rather an insurmountable gap...

Who could be so kind as to have the first place score 20 points higher than the second place score of 721 points in the 700-point range?

This week, the entire second-year high school class, or rather the entire school, was enveloped in the shocking aftershocks of a score of '741'.

During breaks, in the hallways, and in the cafeteria, you can hear students' incredulity and discussions everywhere.

The teachers of Class 5 were overflowing with excitement. First in six subjects, with an all-time high score—my student! Just three months ago, he was a complete failure, but I taught him!
When homeroom teacher Lao Liang spoke at the grade-level weekly meeting, his voice trembled, and he frantically tried to squeeze out his so-called 'educational experience'.

The teachers of all subjects looked at Chen Shi'an as if he were some rare treasure. Let alone the fact that Chen Shi'an was now skipping class every day to do experiments in the laboratory, even if he were to sit on the podium to listen to lectures, wouldn't they treat him like royalty?
However, Chen Shi'an, the person involved, remained calm and indifferent, and instead began to skip classes.

Just as his subject teachers had told him, Chen Shi'an recently applied to Principal Lin for access to all the school's laboratories. He spends most of his free time in the laboratories verifying the various basic experiments that appear in physics, chemistry, and biology textbooks.

The laboratories are located in the experimental building. Apart from being used as examination rooms during major exams, most of the laboratories in the experimental building are just for show, at most giving first-year high school students a novel experience.

With Chen Shi'an's arrival, these laboratories finally came in handy.

During class time, the laboratory building is quiet, which contrasts sharply with the noise of the teaching building.

There was no smell of chalk dust, nor the smell of various snacks or shoes; only the smells of disinfectant, metal, and various faint chemical reagents mixed in the air.

Chen Shi'an was alone in the laboratory, without any other instructors or classmates. Uncle Lin had told him that as long as he didn't blow up the laboratory and was careful, he could do whatever he wanted.

amount……

Since it was school property, Chen Shi'an was very careful in using it. Besides, he had some basic knowledge of various subjects and experiments from books, so blowing up the lab shouldn't be an option...

Given the limited equipment and experimental materials, he can't conduct many experiments. Currently, he mainly wants to verify some things that he's curious about and interested in.

In the biology lab, Chen Shi'an was bent over in front of a high-powered microscope, meticulously adjusting the focus.

The slide contained a temporary mount of epidermal cells made from onions that he had bought from the market.

Under the microscope, he observed clear cell walls and nuclei that were invisible to the naked eye, and he carefully searched for the boundaries of vacuoles.

On the notebook spread out beside him were his hand-drawn cell structure diagrams, with neat handwriting marking the details he observed and the similarities and differences described in the book.

Chen Shi'an's gaze was focused and calm. This microscopic world in front of him, even though it had appeared countless times in books and exam questions, was still full of novelty to him when he saw it with his own eyes.

He secretly channeled a little magic into the onion slices on the tray...

Magic power has attributes. This 'wood attribute' magic power is invisible to the naked eye and even under a microscope, but in Chen Shi'an's own eyes, it has a warm and gentle blue color like a spring stream.

Nourished by this wood-attribute magic, the onion epidermal cells under the microscope began to divide and repair rapidly. However, after a short while, they seemed unable to bear the weight and burst open like overcrowded oranges...

Haha, interesting.

It seems that the power of wood-attribute magic can influence the growth and evolution of plants to a certain extent, but this degree is too difficult to control, and if you are not careful, it will become like pulling up seedlings to help them grow.

In today's environment, spiritual herbs that are naturally grown by absorbing the essence of heaven and earth are extremely rare. If they can truly become spiritual, they are probably from places rich in spiritual energy and have been growing for thousands of years.

Relying on magic to cultivate some spiritual herbs is a thankless task for oneself. Using one's own magic to cultivate seedlings, not to mention the losses involved, and then eating them back afterward, what is the point of replenishing anything in the end!

However, it's fine for someone else to use...

After thinking for a while, Chen Shi'an used a microscope to look at his saliva, hair, oral epithelial cells, and many other things that piqued his curiosity.

As for whether that thing really looks like a tadpole, Chen Shi'an was interested, but it wasn't convenient here, so he gave up on it!
Chemistry was also a subject that Chen Shi'an was very interested in.

Alchemy has a long history and is also the prototype of ancient chemistry. In order to pursue immortality, ancient alchemists carried out a lot of alchemical activities, thinking that by refining mineral medicines, they could integrate the anti-corrosion or sublimation properties of substances into the human body to achieve immortality.

After the establishment of Taoism, Taoist priests inherited the alchemical heritage from alchemists. In order to obtain the elixir of immortality, it gradually developed into a secret experimental technique. According to different schools and different cultivation methods, it was divided into external alchemy and alchemy.

Although the desire for immortality was not realized, a great deal of ancient chemical knowledge was accumulated through more than a thousand years of practice.

Of course, from a modern scientific perspective, it is ultimately just a series of chemical reactions.

The path to immortality through alchemy is a vague and unrealistic one, and it is not the path followed by the Jingchen Temple. Compared to using minerals and metals to refine so-called longevity pills, Chen Shi'an has studied more about medicinal pills made from herbs.

The process of turning medicine into elixir involves 'biochemistry'.

Chen Shi'an had some knowledge of alchemy;
But biochemistry... he said he didn't understand it at all, only to the point of barely knowing it.

After all, I didn't really understand much. High school biology and chemistry are two separate subjects, and there's still too little content on biochemistry.

In the chemistry lab, Chen Shi'an didn't try any spectacular explosion experiments; he simply did some experiments on acid-base neutralization that were in the textbook.

With his left hand, he steadily manipulated the acid burette, his eyes fixed on the moment the phenolphthalein indicator in the conical flask faded. His right hand hovered above, palm down, and a wisp of invisible, intangible magic power, carrying a mysterious rhythm, penetrated into the core of the reaction solution like a probe.

The collision and annihilation of H and OH is not merely an ionic reaction; in Chen Shi'an's eyes, it also presents a yin-yang balance at the level of 'magical power'—

The fiery and restless 'Li Fire' (acidic attribute) and the warm and calm 'Kan Water' (alkaline attribute) blend together, ultimately returning to the neutrality and tranquility of the earth element...

Ok……

Chen Shi'an picked up his pen and recorded the titration volume and calculation results of this bizarre experiment... He didn't do anything special, just experimented for fun. Isn't scientific progress achieved through repeated exploration...?

As for physics experiments, Chen Shi'an had a clear, small goal.

He plans to fulfill his childhood dream and figure out how to successfully use magic to charge a mobile phone battery.

Having learned his lesson from blowing up his master's phone when he was a child, Chen Shi'an now dares not act recklessly. He wants to conduct this unscientific experiment scientifically and with rigorous steps.

First of all, an experimental material is definitely needed, but unfortunately, Master's phone has been blown up. He kept the old phone as a souvenir, and Chen Shi'an was reluctant to use the new phone that Sister Wanyin gave him for the experiment, so he went to Pinduoduo to buy two power banks.

Although he only studied high school physics, Chen Shi'an has gained a lot of scientific knowledge about electricity.

To charge a device, electricity must first be generated. The methods of generating electricity are generally divided into two main categories: physical power generation and chemical power generation.

Common physical methods of generating electricity include electromagnetic induction, electrostatic induction, photoelectric effect, thermoelectric effect, piezoelectric effect, magnetohydrodynamics, etc., which convert energy into electricity through physical processes.

Chemical power generation, on the other hand, generates electricity through chemical reactions, which is based on the battery principle. It converts chemical energy into electrical energy by transferring electrons during redox reactions and using electrodes to guide this transfer into a directional current.

Combining the two, Chen Shi'an had a general idea in mind.

Magic is also a form of energy, but this energy is beyond the comprehension of ordinary people. To convert magic into electrical energy...

Chen Shi'an wasn't sure if switching directly would work. He had learned his lesson before: when he charged his magic, the battery exploded. So he decided to hold off for now.
Perhaps we can take a roundabout approach: first convert the magical power into common forms of energy such as mechanical or thermal energy, and then convert it into electrical energy through physical devices.

For example, you could build a small generator or install a solar panel to convert magical energy into mechanical energy to drive the generator, or convert it into solar energy to irradiate the solar panel, which would naturally generate electricity to charge the battery.

But this is too much trouble!
"Ultimately, it still requires a reverse oxidation-reduction reaction to occur inside the battery."

Chen Shi'an muttered to himself, clutching the power bank.

The core of battery charging is to rely on external energy input to drive the internal reaction in reverse, thereby achieving charge storage. The key is that the input energy must be stable.

Chen Shi'an pondered, his eyes fixed on the two power banks in his hands...

He picked up a power bank that had been fully discharged and carefully disassembled it with a knife and tweezers.

The metal casing made a slight clicking sound when it was pried open. Looking at the neatly arranged battery cells and circuit boards inside, Chen Shi'an did not stop and continued to disassemble until it turned into a pile of unrecognizable materials.

Fortunately, no explosion occurred during the process, and I was finally able to see the inside of the power bank completely.

For a moment, Chen Shi'an was quite curious and studied the pile of 'waste' for a long time before trying to use his magic to trigger the material reaction.

Once, twice, three times...

After countless failures, just as he was about to lose patience, the meter needle suddenly jumped, measuring a momentary voltage.

Chen Shi'an perked up and, after several attempts, finally got the hang of it.

But the battery, which had been disassembled into pieces, was unusable, so he had to turn his attention to another intact power bank.

The magical power at the fingertips slowly seeped in like fine threads...

The charging indicator light, which was originally off, suddenly lit up with a green light!
done?

Before he could even grin, his pupils suddenly contracted, and he instantly activated his magic to form a transparent barrier!

Almost at the same second, the power bank hissed out thick smoke, followed by a loud bang as it exploded in the laboratory!

The power bank exploded.

Under the influence of magic, it exploded somewhat like a bomb...

Even though the temporary magical barrier blocked the fire, the explosive debris, and most of the sound waves, deafening explosions still rang out, shaking the windows so loudly they nearly shattered...

The two figures that had just appeared in the corridor suddenly stopped. Wen Zhixia and Lin Mengqiu exchanged a glance, hurriedly ran to the laboratory, pushed open the door, and rushed in.

The thick smoke in front of us had not yet dissipated, and the air was filled with some strange, pungent smell.

Chen Shi'an, looking disheveled and embarrassed, awkwardly cleaned up the scene...

"Taoist priest!"

"Chen Shi'an—"

"Are you alright?!" *2
Two exclamations rang out simultaneously as the two girls stared wide-eyed at the mess on the ground.

Wen Zhixia pointed at the still-smoking wreckage of the power bank, her voice trembling, "Taoist priest, are you... are you conducting an experiment or setting up an explosion? How could there be explosives in the lab?!"

"Cough cough, it's nothing, it's really nothing..."

"They're still saying it's okay after all that explosion?"

Lin Mengqiu was numb and had completely lost her usual calm demeanor. She quickly walked to his side and reached out to pat away the shrapnel from his shoulder.

Wen Zhixia also took his dark hand, and only breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that it was just dirty and he was not injured.

"What kind of experiment are you conducting?!"*2
Chen Shi'an opened his mouth, looking at the two of them with their still-shaken expressions, and for a moment he didn't know how to explain his great attempt to [charge the power bank with magic]...

(End of this chapter)